Church organisation

Unfortunately, as you’d expect though, the Church, like the rest of S.An culture, isn’t as organised as ours. Two examples show this, 1) is that curacies for new curates are sorted V late indeed, so that you’ll only have a months notice of where you and your family are moving to, if you’re lucky, and you don’t have any say in it at all either, and 2) a young man, Vuzi, was told he was going to go to COTT to train to be a Priest and the day before he was to leave his Bishop had a less than 5min meeting telling him he wasn’t anymore! Poor Vuzi didn’t know what to do, as you can imagine he’d already left his job and so had no money as he was expecting the Church to pay for this training and therefore also living expenses. He came to COTT anyway in the hope the Bishop would change his mind, or at least tell him why he changed his mind, but after a few days the Bishop insisted he left COTT as he was not to train. Thankfully we had a collection for him to help get him back on his feet at home. This was a really sad time, especially as I had begun to get to know him and especially as he seemed a V spiritual and kind man indeed. We all felt for him so, and so I’m still continuing to remember him in my prayers.
Here is a pic of Dom and I with him, taken at the end of the first week -this was the last time we saw him as he left the next day.